Startups
SafeBoda nears Africa’s super app status with launch of food, delivery & payments
SafeBoda, an Uber for Motorcycles in Africa has added food, delivery and payments to its platform, just weeks after launching...
Uganda’s Grainpulse raises $11M for a digital platform to link farmers to fertilizer & markets
Grainpulse, a Ugandan supply chain platform for farmers has raised $11m from IFC and the Private Sector Window of the...
Apis Partners raises $550m to invest in fintech startups in Africa & Asia
Apis Partners, a London-based investment fund has closed its Apis Growth Fund II at a hard-cap of US$550 million with...
Tony Elumelu Foundation opens applications for 2020 cohort
The Tony Elumelu Foundation (TEF), has opened applications for its 2020 cohort of the TEF Entrepreneurship Programme, from January 1,...
Eran Eyal, South African founder of Shopin charged by SEC for a fraudulent $42.5 million ICO
Eran Eyal, the founder of Shopin has been charged by Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) for a fraudulent $42.5 million...
JUA Technologies, a solar-drying tray startup starts East Africa distribution
JUA Technologies International, a Purdue University-affiliated startup developing solar-powered crop-drying devices, is partnering with BrazAgro Ltd., a supplier of Brazilian farm...
SA’s 3X4 Genetics raises $2.5m led by Alethea Capital to expand in the US
3X4 Genetics secures $2.5m series A funding from Alethea Capital to enhance its current product offering and expand the business...
Partech Africa portfolio companies saw $4B+ in financial transactions in 2019
Partech Africa has achieved a lot in just one year. In January 2019, the fund announced it had closed €125M...
Turaco, a Kenya-based micro-insurtech startup, raises $1.2 million seed funding to scale across Africa
Turaco, a Nairobi-based micro-insurtech startup has raised $1.2 million in seed funding to further scale its operations across Africa. Turaco's...
Tanzania’s Essential Social Services wins HiiL’s Justice Accelerator Regional Edition
Tanzania's Essential Social Services (ESS) was selected the East Africa winner of the 2019 HiiL's Justice Innovation Accelerator Challenge for...
Jiji, Tuko & Legit’s sister site, raises $21m, mulls a financial services & payments future
Jiji, a Genesis Technologies firm which bought out Naspers OLX, and sister site to Kenya's Tuko and Nigeria's Legit, has...
GetMyBoat, an Uber for Boats Expands To Kenya Targeting The Growing Marine Based Tourism
GetMyBoat, a San Francisco based marine application, allows users to rent boats and access services like boat riding, Kayaking and...
Cars45 starts operations in Ghana, Kenya, bolsters its C2C marketplace
Cars45, the automotive site of the $700m worth Frontier Car Group, which recently raised $400m from OLX Group, has officially...
Nairobi Garage launches 4th co-working space in Nairobi to meet the growing demand
Nairobi Garage is opening doors to its fourth co-working space in the Spring Valley area of Nairobi, to meet the...
TravelStart takes over Jumia Travel across Africa as Jumia shuts down in Rwanda
TravelStart, a Cape Town-based online travel agency, is taking over the entire operations of Jumia Travel across Africa as the...
Seedstars World Selects 10 Startups from Africa to Compete at Global Finals
Seedstars World, the largest seed-stage startup competition for emerging markets and fast-growing startup scenes, has selected 10 startups from Africa...
Jumia Kenya is downsizing| Starts banner advertising to bolster revenues
Jumia Kenya is downsizing, just weeks after it announced the closure of its e-tail site in Tanzania and weeks after...
Farmshine Raises USD 250,000 Funding from Gray Matters Capital’s coLABS
Farmshine, a Nairobi based agritech start-up that focuses on helping women subsistence farmers realize more income through smart ways has...
Online app Okolea launches IOS Version Improving financial access to SME Owners with IPhone Devices
Okolea loan app has launched an iOS app to reach the increasing number of local Apple device users in the...
Kenya’s Portable Voices signs a podcast distribution & production deal with pan-African counterpart Afripods
Portable Voices, a Kenyan audio production and podcast start-up has announced a podcast production and distribution partnership with Afripods, a...
Taffuta directory app wants to connect SMEs to their customers directly
Taffuta app, a new business directory aims to allow individuals and small businesses to connect directly to increase their sales...
12 Startups graduate from Class 4 of Google Launchpad Accelerator Africa
Launchpad Accelerator Africa, during the first-ever Google Startup Week in Nigeria saw its Class 4 of 12 startups from six...
Nigeria’s Migo (formerly Mines.io) raises $20m Series B, launches in Brazil
Migo (formerly Mines.io), a startup reinventing the way people access and use credit in emerging markets, has completed a Series...
SafeBoda finally launches in Nigeria to take on Max, GoKada, ORide
SafeBoda, a popular ride-hailing platform founded in East Africa has launched in Ibadan, Nigeria, a year after it launched in...
Bookings Africa, a Nigerian talent marketplace for creatives, raises funding & launches in Kenya
Bookings Africa, a Nigerian talent marketplace for creatives has launched in Kenya in a move expected to leverage technology to...
Kenya’s Copia Global raises $26m to launch into other African countries
Copia Global has raised $26 million in a Series B equity round led by LGT Lightstone, with participation from Goodwell...
Continent’s top startups invited to pitch at Africa Startup Summit
Disrupt Africa has opened applications to the 2020 edition of Pitch Live @ Africa Startup Summit, with ten startups to...
Sim Shagaya’s Edtech Startup uLesson Raises $3.1m Led by TLcom Ahead of Launch
uLesson, Sim Shagaya's edtech startup, has raised $3.1mn Seed Round led by TLcom Capital with participation by Sim Shagaya, its founder...
Angaza & SIMA launch a clean energy access fund for distributors
Angaza, together with SIMA, announces the launch of the SIMA Angaza Distributor Financing Fund (DFF), a data-driven investment fund that will...
Vectra, a POS software provider, wins Seedstars Cape Town
Vectra, who provides a single integrated device that combines the Point-of-Sale software as well as a speed point for card...